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Contents.
| Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Two Dialogues in Imitation of Johnson's Style of Conversation— | |
| Dialogue I . . . . . . . . . . . | 232 |
| Dialogue II . . . . . . . . . . . | 237 |
| Recollections of Dr. Johnson by Miss Reynolds . . . . . | 250 |
| Anecdotes by William Seward . . . . . . . . | 301 |
| Anecdotes by George Steevens . . . . . . . . | 312 |
| Anecdotes from the Rev. Percival Stockdale’s Memoirs . . . | 330 |
| A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson by Thomas Tyers . . | 335 |
| Narrative of the Last Week of Dr. Johnson’s Life by the Right Hon. William Windham . . . . . . . . . . | 382 |
| MINOR ANECDOTES— | |
| By Robert Barclay . . . . . . . . . . | 389 |
| By H. D. Best . . . . . . . . . . . | 390 |
| 391 | |
| By the Rev. W. Cole . . . . . . . . . | 392 |
| By William Cooke . . . . . . . . . . | 393 |
| 394 | |
| By Richard Green . . . . . . . . . . | 397 |
| By T. Green . . . . . . . . . . . | 399 |
| By Ozias Humphry . . . . . . . . . . | 400 |
| By Dr. Lettsom . . . . . . . . . . | 402 |
| From Croker’s Edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson . . . | 403 |
| By Dr. John Moore . . . . . . . . . . | 408 |
| By John Nichols . . . . . . . . . . | 409 |
| 413 | |
| 416 | |
| By the Rev. Hastings Robinson . . . . . . . | 417 |
| By Mrs. Rose . . . . . . . . . . . | 419 |
| From Shaw’s History of Staffordshire . . . . . . | 422 |
| 423 | |
| Dugald Stewart on Boswell’s Anecdotes . . . . . | 425 |
| From Gilbert Stuart’s History of the Rise of the Arts of Design in the United States . . . . . . . . . | 425 |
| By the Rev. Richard Warner . . . . . . . . | 426 |
| By Mr. Wickins . . . . . . . . . . | 427 |
| Styan Thirlby, by Dr. Johnson . . . . . . . | 430 |
